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9/20/2018

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What is Microsoft 365 Business

Microsoft 365 Business is a comprehensive set of business productivity and collaboration tools, such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and other Office products that are always up to date. You can protect your work files on all of your iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices with enterprise-grade security that is simple to manage.

Microsoft 365 Business is meant for up to 300 licenses, if you need more licenses, see Microsoft 365 Enterprise documentation for more information.

Get Microsoft 365 Business

If you don't have a partner and want to get Microsoft 365 Business, you can buy it here.

Set up Microsoft 365 Business

Overview of Microsoft 365 Business Suite set up

The following diagram describes how admins set up Microsoft 365 Business. It also describes the steps to prepare Windows PCs for Microsoft 365 Business. You can also add new devices to in the Microsoft 365 Business admin center with the Windows AutoPilot. You can use AutoPilot to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use as soon as a user signs in with their Microsoft 365 Business credentials.

If you are permanently moving from a local Active Directory to the cloud, you can either add your users manually in the Microsoft 365 Business admin center by using the setup wizard, or you can do a one-time sync with Azure AD Connect. There are two ways to do this:

If you also have an Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, or Exchange 2016 server, you can Use Minimal Hybrid to quickly migrate Exchange mailboxes to Office 365. The minimal hybrid steps include a one-time sync of users to Azure AD as well as email migration from on-premises to the cloud. After the email migration is complete, the directory synchronization is automatically turned off when using this method.

If your organization uses Windows Server Active Directory on-premises, you can set up Microsoft 365 Business to protect your Windows 10 devices, while still maintaining access to on-premises resources that require local authentication. Follow the steps in Enable domain-joined Windows 10 devices to be managed by Microsoft 365 Business to set this up. This is the preferred method and devices in this state are called Hybrid Azure AD joined devices.